The Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress invited deputies to the provincial and national people's congresses to inspect a demonstration area of "garden city" program in Chengdu, the provincial capital, on May 12.
Zhang Yupu was elected chairman of northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region on Saturday.
Local authorities in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang province, have released the latest regulation on the protection and management of the Xixi National Wetland Park, with the new rules coming into effect on June 1.
A local legislation on the protection of Hongze Lake, the fourth-largest freshwater lake of China, will go into effect on May 1.
In recent years, the standing committee has implemented about a dozen such shorter, more efficient, and high-impact regional regulations, according to the committee.
Shenzhen will roll out development plans this year for park in the Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation zone, whose purpose is to increase technology and innovation cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao, according to a government report delivered by Mayor Qin Weizhong on Monday.
In recent years, local people's congresses-local legislative bodies-have stepped up efforts to enact more regulations that are relevant to people's lives and involve new industrial development.
Shanghai's municipal legislature recently prohibited the provision of cosmetology services to minors without the consent of their parents or guardians and revised other city regulations to better protect minors.